The History and Science of a Hamburger Science of Everything Book

Nobody sat down one day and invented the hamburger. There was no blueprint. No founding document. No heroic chef standing over a griddle saying, “Gentlemen, today we change lunch forever.” The hamburger happened the way most powerful systems do: by accident, necessity, bad logistics, good heat, and people being very, very hungry. It is not fancy food pretending to be simple. It is simple food pretending to be inevitable. At its core, a hamburger is just this: Ground muscle. Salt. Heat. Bread that agrees to hold everything together without asking philosophical questions.